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Introduce Yanling’s new translation:
What is Beyond Us

To an independent thinker who pursues spiritual growth this book
can benefit any type of practitioner such as a Buddhist, or tai chi, qigong, or
martial art practitioner – even one who takes modern science as their faith.

Rwa’s stories and poems can be very resourceful and educational.
They tell why the only obstacles in a practitioner’s personal development are
self xin (heart mind; consciousness). They tell why we have to make self-effort
in order to stop the mind from creating karmas. Karma is our force of habit of
previous lives that makes us each different individual, and the book shows this
is why we have to pick the right way that suits self to learn about self and
get to know about the truth of self.

The stories of the saints in my other books all show the same
truth: choosing the right path for self. This is why I added my brief
comparison between Milareb and Rwa, who both were great achievers of Buddhism
of Tibetan tradition, yet in very differentl style. Their stories showed this
great wisdom of Buddhism: to adapt to cultivate self-mind. They showed how
limited the human intelligence is - such as we only believe what we can see and
even become superstitious.

You will read about Rwa’s stunning natural superpower. However,
what he could do cannot even compare with what all the people can do when you
read the Forty-eight Wishes of Buddha Amitabha! Yet again, the Buddha told us
that each of us has a young Amitabha within. And, He accepts the imperfect ones
like you and me to continue perfect self, when we are determined to go to the
Pure Land!

Both Buddhism and Daoism teach that our mind is the
“trouble-maker” and the heart can be the “peace-maker,” yet, neither is the
true eternal, unchanging, the divine emptiness in you and me; in each of us.
This is told in the Buddha’s Heart Sutra. So I added it to the end of the book.
And, to “savior” Rwa’s songs helps also understand the Buddha’s Heart Sutra
better, as this is how I felt.

Rwa’s life and his songs told about how he revealed the powerful
true self and how he strived towards to perfect self-Buddhahood.

This book tells us:

1. Where we humans
came from and how we have got lost about the true self,

2. Why the karma-mind,
good or evil can both block a practitioner to reveal the true self and perfect self,

This story is about the daughter of one of Chiang Kai-shek’s
generals(Yanling). It covers her life’s journey in seeking truth during
a most tumultuous time. Mao’s society classified people, including all
the children, by their family background, their schooling, marriages,
and jobs, which affected their future. How would this little girl, the
daughter of a concubine, survive in such a society? How would one
persist in individual thinking behind a door closed to the world? The
main character, Zhaohua, shows how strong a human spirit can be, and
adapt to the changing environment, yet remain true deep down. America’s
sweet freedom has given her the room to relieve the hurts and relax.
She begins to see that her past, and her ancestors’ teachings, has
guided her in the sense of right and wrong in a brainwashed society,
and how their valuable teachings also are guiding her in the free
world.

Yanling's new Ebook

This is Volume 1 of Yanling's
monumental translation (read more
about Herbal Food below). There has been a lot of work put
into this to
make it easier to read and navigate.

A testimonial:

The Qi Energy in Foods
For Living - Volume 1 - The
Vegetables, is an insight into a fascinating ancient culture
and is brimming
with good common sense and ancient proven knowledge.

According to Chinese medicine,
food sometimes functions as
therapy.We
Americans could benefit
greatly from changes in our diets and the information in this book is a
good
place to start.I
found this book
to be a fascinating read!Yanling
Johnson does an masterful job of translating from the ancient text and,
in
addition, has included other information both interesting and helpful
to the
reader.I highly
recommend this
book.Alexis Allen Chambers

Yanling has cancelled the trip for
2003 due to various
concerns. She is planning to do it in 2004 on approximately
the same
dates. Here are
the details of the trip. If
you are interested in going, sign up for Yanling's mailing list (below).

The 2003 trip was cancelled, but
Yanling went anyway and took
Claire, our daughter. Here
is a
story by Claire about her experiences. She took lots of
wonderful pictures
and I will be putting them up here soon.

From Yanling:

Hello, my name is Yanling Johnson and I will be taking a
group to China in
the summer of 2003.

In preparation for this trip, I went to China in
September of 2002 to meet
the teachers and gather information about the places we will be staying.

I believe the teachers I have recruited will be great
teachers for the group.

This trip is to teach you how to increase wisdom (from
your deep heart) and
speed up enlightenment. I guarantee that the two teachers are erudite,
very
experienced,

high level qigong masters, and are enlightened. They are
able to teach
different individuals the right approach to pursuing Dao.

The class locations are in beautiful, scenic areas of
China with clean air
and friendly local people. We will be staying in folk style, tidy
places.

One place will be in a Tibetan area but not in Tibet.

Come and join me to learn and practice with enlightened
qigong masters July
20 -Aug 8, 2003. We will be keeping the size of this group
small, so
please let us know as early as possible if you are interested.

To those who don't know me, I would like to use as a
brief introduction what
Dr. Roger Jahnke wrote for my new book, "Qigong for Living":

"Yanling is one of our most sincere Qi cultivation
practitioner-scholars. Raised in China and steeped in the tradition,
yet
articulate in the language of the West, her books bring the reader into
the
vastness of China's qigong domain of self-healing, empowerment and
spirituality.
If you are interested in healing and health care, this book is a
must-read. If
you seek personal growth, this book will open your eyes, broaden your
views and
much more."

Please contact yanling@qi.org
or call
1-541-752-6599 for more information.

Herbal Food

Yanling has made it her
mission to bring the vast wealth
of dietary information from China to the West. With that in
mind, she has
translated twelve volumes of the famous Compendium of Meteria
Medica - Ben Tsao Gang Mu by
Li, Shi-zhen (1518-1599, Ming Dynasty) She has had trouble
finding a
publisher for this enormous work, so she is self-publishing with the
first
volume now available on line:

The information in this book is
the most interesting, powerful information about foods that can be
found in
the United States. It is a translation of one of the most famous
medicine text books
by Li, Shi-zhen during
the Ming Dynasty. Human vital energy, or life force, is called qi
(pronounced chi) in the Chinese language. This
qi energy has been the focus and the first priority of Chinese health
care for 7,000 years. Qi energy is
the basic theory of how acupuncture needles, herbal formulas, Chinese
diet, and Chinese exercises
(like tai chi and qigong) work. The distinguishing characteristic of
Chinese health care compared to
that of the rest of the world is that it is about the energy of the
whole being.
Qi energy can be cleansed, balanced and increased by eating right and
eating the right combination of
foods. Wrong eating can do the opposite. So, eating right has been the
main principle in Chinese medicine
and in the Chinese people's lives forever.